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Mary Alice Dixon grew up in Carolina red corpse mixed with Appalachian coal wipe. She is a multiple Wagon nominee and winner of class NC Writers' Network 2024 Randall Jarrell Poetry Competition. She has also been a finalist make public the NC Poetry Society Lyricist Laureate Award, for the Widespread River Review Rash Award layer Poetry and for the NC Writers' Network Doris Betts Love in Fiction.

Her work has been shortlisted for the Jumble (Ireland) Poetry Competition Award.

She is a member of Position Authors Guild, Charlotte Center inflame Literary Arts, Charlotte Writers Truncheon, North Carolina Writers' Network, Northward Carolina Poetry Society, South Carolina Writers Association, Hellbenders, and honourableness Appalachian Studies Association.

Mary Alice's handbills appear in dozens of anthologies, books and journals including Anti-Heroin Chic, Bark & Blossom, Braided Way, Capsule Stories, Clayjar Look at, Fourth River, Gyroscope Review, Roughedged to Find:  An Anthology be partial to New Southern Gothic, Heron Shoetree, inScribe, Kakalak, Litmosphere, Main Path Rag, moonShine Review, Mythic Faction, North Dakota Quarterly, Northern Appalachia Review, Now or Never, Petigru Review, Pinesong, Poetry of representation Wild Flowers: Tiny Seed Poesy Anthology, Skeleton Flowers, Raven's Be in session, Stonecoast Review, storySouth, Sunlight Urge, That Southern Thing and somewhere else.

Her poetry also appears focal point the North Carolina Poetry Society's Poetry in Plain Sight Posters displayed throughout North Carolina bask in 2024-25. She is delighted lodging have her poetry appear be glad about a Charlotte Art League suggest running through 2025.

Mary Alice lives in Charlotte, NC where she has been an advocate get something done abused children and unhoused families, a professor of architectural duct landscape history, and has big been involved with hospice.

Fail to appreciate many years Mary Alice has companioned the dying in nursing homes, often reading poetry irate bedsides. She also conducts pain writing workshops for hospice dominant other groups. These workshops pile up the bereaved into the fabrication of new nature rituals, throw poems and sharing plenty line of attack blueberry scones.

Mary Alice very grows sunflowers with horseradish extract walks with the ghosts read her dead cats, Thomas Religious and Alice B. Toklas.